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Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
job, like forming a new relationship, like getting some serious
illness. And so these things can be integrated and are integrated
and worked with within the context of Radiant Mind, so that's
what in a way makes it different from just a short-term workshop.
TRIP: Okay. And what's the Center for Timeless Wisdom about?
PETER FENNER: Center for Timeless Wisdom is the center that I
founded and that I direct that delivers the two programs, and
organizes retreats that I do. So it's a California non-profit that
organizes and manages the nondual training at Radiant Mind. Its
mission is to adapt Eastern nondual teachings, particularly from
Mahayana Buddhism and make them relevant and easily
accessible in the West, its overarching mission.
TRIP: I can keep asking questions [Laughs]. Are you going to do
the nondual conference again next year? Do you know yet?
PETER FENNER: By that you mean the science and nonduality?
TRIP: Yes, are you going to do that again?
PETER FENNER: Yes, I'll be participating in that in San
Francisco, yes. It's a fun event.
TRIP: I'm wondering you've probably been around a lot; you've
definitely been around the block many more times than I have. I
heard about a thing called spirit fest in Bali, that's the only other
thing I've ever heard of, but what are some of the conferences that
you have participated in that you think are really good?
PETER FENNER: I've been involved for many years; I've been
involved from the beginning in 2000 of the Nondual Wisdom and
Psychotherapy Conference that happens annually in San
Francisco, that's a professional conference really more for mental
health professionals. I don't do a lot of conferencing myself
mainly because I love the training that I offer, and they're like a
little conference in their own right. We had close to 30 people in
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